[1] Naval Leadership throughout U.S. History[Note: The editor sometimes tries to deal with the incredulities of the present culture by putting the subject irony into historical perspective – either that or by writing a song parody…]Captain John Paul Jones - “I have not yet begun to fight.”

Admiral David Farragut - “[%$&#] the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!”

Admiral Bull Halsey - “There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstance to meet.”

Admiral Chester Nimitz - “God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.”

Admiral Raymond Spruance - "A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions."

Admiral Hyman Rickover – “Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.”

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen – 2 February 2010 - "No matter how I look at the issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens."

Steven Ocean, Tite Sifra, and another young Christian man went onto the streets of Boynton Beach, Florida on 30 January 2010 to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Ocean and Sifra were following the call of God to minister to troubled youth in the same city where the two themselves had experienced prior run-ins with the law.

The three men shared the Gospel with Jeriah Woody for about fifteen minutes, then began to walk away from Woody. Woody then ran after the trio, pulled a gun, and shot Ocean and Sifra dead. The third evangelist fled to safety. Woody was arrested and has confessed to killing the two evangelists.

Church of Scotland leaders characterize the pope’s remarks as “unhelpful” and as a boost to those against official recognition in 2010 of the 450th anniversary of the Scottish Reformation.

Former Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Andrew MacLellan, while welcoming the Pope’s September 2010 visit, disagrees with Benedict XVI’s characterization of the Protestant Reformation, describing the Scottish Reformation as “the great renewal of Scotland's Christian past.”

Two recent articles in Open for Business (OFB) examine what OFB writers see as problems associated with church discipline, and suggest remedies for the problems.

Timothy R. Butler’s 9 January 2010 article titled “The Hidden Danger of Peacemakers” details Peacemaker Ministries (PM) and what Butler sees, beneath the stated goal of bringing more individual accountability to church members for their behavior, as PM programs giving too much power to church leaders, facilitating a presumption of guilt upon the person being prosecuted, and providing that person “little room for fair appeals or due process.”

Eduardo Sánchez’s 3 February 2010 article titled “Stopping Jerks from Abusing the Church,” examines the modern-day Diotrephes (3 John) who Sánchez dubs a “jerk,” defined as “someone inclined to grab power at organizations with no regard to the cost meted out to other people.”

Sánchez similarly says that programs from groups like Peacemaker Ministries “espouse granting power to [church] leaders but few protections to members under the justification that somehow this is “biblical,”” then suggests that churches studying church discipline go first to Matthew 18 and 1 Corinthians, then examine the Manual of Church Discipline by 19th century Reformed Baptist pastor the Rev. Rev. Eleazer Savage, and the 1619 Church Order of Dordrecht, the 17th century concord of ecclesiastic community of the Reformed Churches in theNetherlands, of which Sánchez affirms as providing a more balanced approach to church discipline.

McAdow and two other Presbyterian ministers previously suspended for their support of The Great Revival met at McAdow’s cabin to form a new denomination with less formal education required for clergy in a region of harsh conditions and limited education.

The CPC today has 50,000 members in 730 churches. CPC General Assembly Stated Clerk Robert Rush describes CPC theology as a mixture of Reformed and Evangelical Christianity.

The PCN has directed its churches nationwide to raise funds for the relief of those in Jos affected by the rioting, emphasizing that the relief effort is part of the Church’s social responsibility in line with Jesus’ teaching for assistance to the needy.

A 7 February 2010 article in the Daily Observer titled “Presbyterian Church Conflict Resolved,” by Joaquin Sendolo reports that in October 2009, several members of the Presbyterian Church on Broad and Johnson Streets (Presbyterian Church of Liberia (PCL)) in Monrovia, Liberia, protested the leadership of church Pastor Lawrence Bayusie on the grounds that Bayusie was allegedly carrying on satanic practices in the church. The protesters demanded Bayusie’s departure or else the protesters would leave the church themselves.

Bayusie was alleged to have buried ‘juju’ in the church compound – an amulet or fetish superstitiously venerated by some West African tribes.

Moderator-elect of the PCL, the Rev. Sando E. Townsend, reported that church members who had left the church because of the allegations about Bayusie have begun to return, and said that the damage caused to the church since October 2009 will take some time to heal. Townsend additionally reported that Bayusie has been transferred to another PCL church that Townsend would not identify.

A CDC 4 February 2010 press release says that “The Obama Administration's silence on this issue has slowed efforts to free these Christian missionaries,” and reveals that the missionaries “…attempted to comply with local Haitian law, to the best of their ability, as they reached out to these thirty-three children. They were actually arrested as they were returning back to Port-Au-Prince [Haiti] to secure the necessary paper work for their charitable mission.”

-- The Obama Administration gave attempted underwear bomber Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights hours after he tried to kill hundreds of Americans, yet Obama has not demanded the release of ten American missionaries jailed in Haiti.

-- The jailed missionaries’ Haitian lawyer, Edwin Coq, was fired because he tried to extort a US$60,000 bribe to obtain their release.

-- The Haitian Prime Minister called them "kidnappers" even before any formal charges were filed.

-- Haitian officials publicly stated they "wanted to make an example" out of the missionaries even before they were charged.

Due to an overabundance of snow and a weather forecast for more of the same, the Calvin Synod Central Classis Meeting originally scheduled for 12 February 2010 at the First Hungarian Reformed Church of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been postponed until 13 March 2010.

DeYoung writes of Frelinghuysen: “He preached emotional sermons, prayed free prayers, practiced church discipline, and aimed squarely at the conversion of sinners. His messages were experiential, fruitful, and popular. He could also be an irascible fellow.” Frelinghuysen was lauded by both Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield, and had great influence upon the ministry of Gilbert Tennent.

The editor sends many thanks to the long-time New Hampshireresident reader who so graciously brought this error to the editor’s attention, and beyond that did not disparage the obvious lack of proofreading prowess leading to the headline’s “altered state.”